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Re: [apps-discuss] content inspection in absence of media type, was: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-24

ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Mon, 04 November 2013 15:44 UTC

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Mark Nottingham writes:

> Consensus around this text was particularly hard-won; unless there
> is a very good reason to make a change, I'd rather not risk falling
> into that rat-hole again.

And, I should add in case it helps at all, that the W3C TAG was
involved in the extensive discussions which resulted in this text.

I also think the fact that it is where it is, in 3.1.1.5, does matter.

But recapitulating and/or referencing it in the Security
Considerations section would of course be fine, and indeed probably
desireable.

ht
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